A sting involving federal agents posing as members of the Hells Angels has led to the arrest this week of five men associated with an Arizona network that authorities say is responsible for producing tens of millions of dollars worth of a hallucinogenic drug marketed innocuously as "bath salts."

J.T. Ready, the avowed White supremacist and militant critic of illegal immigration who authorities believe was the gunman in Wednesday's multiple murder-suicide in Gilbert, cut a swath through Arizona politics before -- and after -- it became apparent he represented the far-right fringe of the political spectrum.